In the postwar period, projects of social justice have often drawn upon ideas of national
solidarity, calling upon shared national identities to mobilize support for the welfare state …

In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided
with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and …

Researchers have investigated the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on a range of
socioeconomic and political outcomes. However, approaches to measuring ethnic diversity …

The transformation of night-watchman states into welfare states is one of the most notable
societal developments in recent history. In 1880, not a single country had a nationally …

Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality”
claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the …

We examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in
Europe using a newly assembled dataset of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western …

As the asylum crisis hit Europe in tandem with the Great Recession, concerns about
declining support for equal welfare provision to immigrants grow. Although studies on …

While there is a large literature on attitudes toward immigrants, scholars have not
systematically examined the determinants of attitudes toward refugees. Often, refugees are …

The financial collapse of 2008, and its consequences of recession in the Eurozone and
beyond, has exacerbated tensions at the heart of the postwar European project. The politics …

As a core principle of contemporary democracy, political representation has been the
subject of numerous studies. In particular, responsiveness has been thoroughly examined …